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Technology and the Rest of Culture Conference
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:01:54 -0500
From: Shari Silberstein
"Technology and the Rest of Culture"
The New School for Social Research is pleased to announce a major three-day public conference sponsored by the scholarly journal, Social Research, January 16, 17, and 18, 1997. This is an unprecedented opportunity to explore the inseparable relationships between emerging technologies and the cultures in which they evolve, as expressed in science, art, literature, politics, and philosophy, both past and present.
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Thursday, January 16
1. The Concept of Technology: History, Definitions, and Critiques (2:00pm - 5:00pm) How and why did the concept of technology emerge? What are its precursors? What are its different meanings? What are its critiques--and how and why did they emerge? How do changing technologies and technologic metaphors transform visions of the past, the present, and the future?
1. Social Contexts of Technology - Robert Adams, former Secretary of the Smithsonian 2. The Emergence of the Concept of Technology - Leo Marx, MIT 3. Technology Today: Dystopia or Utopia? - Langdon Winner, RPI Moderator: Robert Heilbroner, The New School for Social Research
2. Keynote Address: Technology and Culture (6:00pm - 7:30pm) Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
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Friday, January 17
3. Case Studies (9:00am - 12:00pm) How have technological innovations changed the ways in which we know, we learn, and we communicate? Have they transformed the fundamental nature of these capacities? What are the likely cultural and social consequences of the major advances in communication technology?
1. From the Printed Word to the Moving Image - Elizabeth Eisenstein, emeritus, University of Michigan 2. The Social Consequences of Speeded Information Transmission: Telegraph, Telephone, and Computer - David Nye, Odense University, Denmark 3. Computational Technologies and Images of the Self - Sherry Turkle, MIT Moderator: Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University
4. Science (2:00pm - 5:00pm) How does technology transform science and how do the sciences transform the goals of technology?
1. Models of the Mind - Marvin Minsky, MIT 2. Models of Matter - Peter Galison, Harvard University 3. Models of Life - Joshua Lederberg, emeritus, Rockefeller University Moderator: David Gelernter, Yale University
5. Political Life (8:00pm - 11:00pm) What is the relationship between our means of communication and our sense of community? How may changes in the ways in which we communicate challenge our system of democracy and our system of free expression? How have these changes been reflected in our laws?
1. Democracy and Free Speech - Alan Ryan, Oxford University 2. The Law - Paul Gewirtz, Yale University Law School Moderator: Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
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Saturday, January 18
6. Imagination (9:00am - 12:00pm) What are the effects of changing technologies on modes of representation and ways of imagining? How have philosophers, artists, and writers in the past and in the present responded to these changes?
1. Philosophy - George Kateb, Princeton University 2. Literature- John Hollander, Yale University 3. Art - Robert Herbert, Mt. Holyoke College Moderator: Rosalind Williams, MIT
7. Contemporary Moral and Political Issues (2:00pm - 4:00pm) A discussion among conference participants and the audience of some of the political and moral issues raised by the new technology among which are questions of intellectual property, democratic representation, censorship, and unequal access.
Moderator: Robert Adams
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Related Events
Poetry and Technology. (Wednesday, January 15, 6:00pm) Swayduck Auditorium, New School, 65 Fifth Avenue A poetry reading addressing the matter of technology as dealt with in the poetry of the past and present. Co-sponsored by the Writing Program and the Academy of American Poets. Organized by John Hollander.
Art , Technology, and the Rest of Culture. (Sunday, January 19, 2:00pm) Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Barbara Maria Stafford, University of Chicago; Kent Lydecker, associate director for education. Lecture and discussion. Free with Museum admission. No tickets or reservations necessary. For information please call 212-570-3710.
A Demonstration. (January 16 through January 18) The Environmental Simulation Center of the New School presents a series of one hour demonstrations illustrating the application of computer visualizations and simulations in real world contexts such as the revitalization of lower Manhattan.
World Wide Web Site. Organized by the Getty Information Institute to explore conference themes. Mid-December 1996 through the spring of 1997 at http:\\www.gii.getty.edu\
Teaching Art and Technology. A series of three all-day workshops for K-12 teachers in New York City on the theme of "Art and Technology," organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Spring 1997. For information call 212-570-3985.
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Information
"Technology and the Rest of Culture" is organized by the New School for Social Research in cooperation with the Academy of American Poets, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Getty Information Institute. Support for "Technology and the Rest of Culture" is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Interval Research Corporation, and the Engineering Foundation.
The Conference is organized by Arien Mack, Editor of Social Research and Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research.
The conference will be held in the John L. Tishman Auditorium, the New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York City. Admission to all seven sessions is $35. Admission to a single session is $5. Students with ID are admitted free. Advance registration is recommended. Payment must accompany all reservations.
To register by mail, please print and mail the form below to: Technology and the Rest of Culture Conference, c/o Social Research, 65 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10003. Make checks payable to the New School for Social Research. To register by phone (credit card only), please call the box office at 1-800-709-4321 and select "Purchase a ticket for an Arts Event." The box office is open Monday - Friday, 1pm - 8pm.
For all other inquiries, please call Shari Silberstein at 212-229-2488 or email SilbersS@newschool.edu.
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